17k links suddenly arrive!

[urban33ltd]

Hi

Was just checking my google webmaster account and found I have suddenly got 17k links turn up!! These links are all from items that were listed on ebay france as all the url's have item titles in them. However when I click on these links they go to ebay.fr but it says the item has been removed.

I am a bit worried this is going to look bad with google and could get the site in trouble but not sure what to do about it?

Also just before anyone ask's I didn't put the links there, in fact no link work has been done for the site since Jan 10.

Stuart

[thebookiesoffers]

i am no expert at all and someone may be able to shoot me down but i would say that webmaster tools are just reporting alot more detail, even though they knew about the links before they were just a bit sloppy reporting back to you. I read something about google caffiene but no idea what that is. All in all, just relax and dont worry..... till someone says im wrong anyway :D

[MASSEY]

You probably had the links for ages, google are really slow at telling you links you pick up, yahoo site explorer is the best.

So i dont think you will be hit by anything negative.

[CaterTrade]

Same thing happened to me the other day. For ages GWT said I had 106 links to my home page - now it tells me I have 9,781. I think they just decided to reveal more that they already know about.

[matt.chatterley]

You probably had the links for ages, google are really slow at telling you links you pick up, yahoo site explorer is the best.

So i dont think you will be hit by anything negative.

Another vote for Site Explorer here.

Google can be a bit random in trms of reporting the number of inbound links which you have - although you shouldn't totally ignore it.

Do your 17k "ebay" links show up in yahoo/other tools?

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

[Mystro]

theres an error with Google webmaster tools at the moment, its showing i have 270k links

Ignore whats there and take the advice from the other answers use site explorer

[Andycal]

Concur with above, but I'd also add that you should check out 'Majestic SEO' - apparently has a bigger link database than anyone ever in the world ever. Free just to get the number of links you've got.

[urban33ltd]

Thanks guys for the help and advice it was just the sudden impact of it at the same time as dropping 10 pages for a search term we had in google.

Stu